Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.